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'F-86 File 82/27 - V QATAR OIL'
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'File 12/2 Treatment of Baharna in Persia'
these groups of Bahrainis requesting assistance
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'Confidential 86/7-VIII B-45 P.C.L. TRUCIAL COAST'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . The correspondence focuses on the negotiations between Shaikh Sultan bin Salim [Shaikh Sulṭān bin Sālim Āl Qasimī]
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'War Censorship'
an agent. in Muscat on the precise parameters of wartime censorship in multiple languages
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File 1/A/1 I Stamps and Postage; Relations with Persia
British officials of whether or not to issue the surcharged stamps in view of the likelihood of protests by the Government of Persia and the impact on treaty negotiations between Britain and Persia
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'22/16 Mr Philby's Mission to Najd - 1918.'
Harry St John Bridger Philby
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'File 18/6 Special repairs to the Agency buildings'
an agent. Building in Bahrain. Most of the work discussed is included in a list of requirements for original works
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Raqāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʾiq Chips of facts in arithmetic, stairs and minutes Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, tribe of al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Muhammad
Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī
Arabic
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'File 4/27 Construction of Kuwait-Basra Railway'
an agent. in Kuwait) regarding a visit to Kuwait of a small British team from Iraq to complete a survey concerning the possibility of constructing a railway from Basra
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'File 20/1 V Ceremonials and Celebrations. Celebrations in connection with Christmas New Year, H. M. The King's Birthday etc'
an agent. in Bahrain. For the King’s Birthday
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'File 3/6 Agency Medical Officer'
an agent. Medical Officer at Bahrain held by Assistant Surgeon Dr R Holmes. Details include: extensions to his duty at Bahrain in 1932
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'File G/10 V. O. Personal letters of PAs & AP.A.S’
cultural centres in Bahrain such as the Sporting Cultural Club
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'File 31/9 (6/10) SHAIKH KHALIFAH bin HAMAD AL KHALIFAH'
a petition
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Coll 6/64 'South-Eastern Boundaries in [Arabia] – Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1913. Attitude of U.S.A.'
the United States Embassy in Angora [Ankara] to its British counterpart
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Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq An article on extracting the height of the pole for the purpose of investigation Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham, al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan known as Ibn al-Haytham
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'File 61/13 I (D 133) Wahabis and Pilgrimage to Hedjaz'
an agent.
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'File 1/A/5 II Administration: Qatar affairs'
Shaikh Abdullah for the supply of armoured cars fitted with machine guns
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Sharḥ al-tadhkirat al-naṣīrīyah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah Explanation of the Nusayri Tadhkirah in the Science of the Body ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī Ali bin Muhammad bin Ali al-Husseini al-Jurjani
ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī
Arabic
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Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurīyah The Book of Manelaus in Spherical Shapes Menelaus of Alexandria Manelaus
Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn 'Īsá al-Māhānī
Arabic
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'File 5/1 XIII Kuwait Oil Company'
the Kuwait Oil Company in 1936. Of note are the arrangements for the ceremony announcing the beginning of oil extraction in Kuwait. The file also includes forms
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'File 4/60 Mission Fund.'
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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'File 6/4 Foreign Interests: French Consulate Building at Muscat and Visit to Muscat of French Consul, Bombay to Muscat'
an agent. in Muscat concerning the refurbishment and upkeep of the vacant French Consulate building in Muscat. In addition to this correspondence
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Letter from Abbas Mirza to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company
withholding mediation and the payment of subsidy to Persia during the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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'Arabic File (1)'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. at Sharjah. There are also letters from Messrs A & T J Malcolm & Company
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'Journal of the British Embassy to Persia; Embellished with Numerous Views taken in India and Persia: also a Dissertation upon the Anqituities of Persepolis'
William Price. Publication Details: London
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'File 9/1 Institution of Reforms & Sunni opposition intrigues'
Prior and Barrett in June and August 1929 respectively
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The Book of the Ball and the Cylinder Kitāb al-kurrah wa-al-isṭūwānah Archimedes Archimedes
the mathematician
Arabic
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Copy of Arabic plan showing site acquired by the British Government for Naval Base Juffair, Manama
Charles Dalrymple Belgrave and M Khalil. Location and extent of the land boundaries stated in a Register [al-tasjīl]: No. 388
Arabic
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"Nourishment for the Ailing" and "Nourishment for the Healthy"
Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī: Aghdhīyat al-marḍā
Arabic
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'File 27/12 II Kuwait Trade Reports from 1917-18 to 1923-24'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'File 1/A/50 I Publicity'
the British Broadcasting Corporation
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'F-81 82/1-V A.P.O.C. Kuwait'
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Letter from Shaikh Zayed ben Khalifeh [Zayd I bin Khalifa Al Nahyan], Chief of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] to Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident Persian Gulf, Bushire
Pelly at Bushire 19 December 1870. Letter regarding the Ghobaysat [Qubaisat] tribe who had departed Aboothabee
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Letter from the Shah of Persia to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and a Translation of the Letter
Captain Hart and requests that he receive the same ‘approbation and rewards’ as other officers who have been similarly engaged in Persia
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Ziyādāt fī al-maqālah al-khāmisah min kitāb Uqlīdis Additions in the fifth article of Euclid’s book Jawharī, al-‘Abbās ibn Sa‘īd Jawhari, Al-Abbas ibn Sa‘id
the astronomer and mathematician al-‘Abbās ibn Sa‘īd al-Jawharī
Arabic
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Persian Gulf Affairs
the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to
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al-Murakkabāt al-Shāhīyah Shahi Compounds 'Imad al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd Imad al-Din Shirazi, Mahmoud ibn Masoud
Maḥmud ibn Masʿūd ʽImad al-Din Shīrāzī
Arabic
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File 18/12 'Accommodation for the Staff of the Hon'ble the Political Resident when on Tour at Bahrain'
an agent. in Bahrain
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Discourse on Universal History
‘Abd Allah al-Bustāni. It was commissioned for translation and publication by Bishop Yūsuf ibn Ilyās al-Dibs
Arabic
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www.qdl.qa
Undetermined
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An anonymous treatise on the interpretation of dreams
earliest surviving Arabic dream manual. The text also contains a large number of anecdotes and poetic excerpts. The copy consists of the second half of an index
Arabic
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'33 File 665 Hostilities between Shaikh Zaid and Shaikh Jasim'
local rulers.
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Discerning and Specifying the Circumstances of Revelation of the Noble Hadiīth
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad Kamal al-Din al-Husayni al-Dimashqi
Arabic
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'File 26/185 V (F 96) Shaikh of Mohammerah'
several of the heads of leading Arab families in the region
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List of books by Muhammad bin Zakaria al-Razi al-Muttabbib and their purposes.
the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī
Arabic
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Sharḥ al-Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab Explanation of the message in action with the answerable quarter Sanbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Sunbati, Ahmed bin Abdul Haq
Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sanbāṭī
Arabic
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The Book of Literary Expressions
the Jesuit Fathers’ printing press of Beirut
Arabic
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'File 6/3 Survey of Kuwait and Neutral Zone by the Royal Air Force (also by American Navy)'
Saudi authorities that aerial surveys would be used to delineate political boundaries.
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'File 0255 Boundaries'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
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Native Letters Outward
‘Īsá bin Jarrāḥ of the Āl Bin ‘Alī tribe
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'File 4/13 Annexe Zubarah. Misc: Papers, Personal Correspondence, Shaikh Hamad's Visit, ETC.'
Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī
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'File 5/10 Jasim Muhammad al-Chirawi and his uncle Ali bin Abdullah bin Muhammad on Black List'
various notable Bahrainis attesting to al-Chirāwī's crimes and intrigues against the British.
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‘File 7/2 I Landing grounds and seaplane anchorages’
Shaikh Shakbut and funded by the RAF to watch the depot later absconded to the pearl fisheries
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Selected Techniques in the Art of Agriculture
sections on grains similar to wheat
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'File 11/5 Titles. Koweit 15 Recommendations for Titles and Honours'
an agent. in Kuwait
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Letter from Harford Jones to John Malcolm and letter from Rahmat Ullah Khan to Harford Jones
Rahmat Ullah Khan
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Kitāb fī al-qarasṭūn A book on Qarastoun Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī Thabit ibn Qara al-Harrani
Abū al-Hasan Thabit ibn Qurrah al-Harrani
Arabic
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'File 18/68 I (D 114) Kuwait Order in Council'
the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
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'Sirri Island Occupation by the Persian Govt. 1887-1902'
Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. rulers
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‘File 86/2 I (C 30) Bahrain Oil Concession (Eastern & General Syndicate)’
the volume include: Fears on the part of British officials in 1925 to the prospects of the discovery of oil in Bahrain
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'File 26/1 Medical. Requests from Shaikhs for visits by medical officers'
Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī
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'Kuwait'
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'File 8/27 SULTAN'S TOURS to INDIA, U.K., FAR EAST, U.S.A. June to Dec 1937.'
the Sultan regarding his plans for a European tour and a possible visit to the United States
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Selections from Kitāb al-Mulakhkhaṣ concerning physics Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar
fleeing what is unnatural or seeking what is natural’
Arabic
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'File 29/28 British Industrial Fair'
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and
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Persia
some Persians
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Kitāb Isqilawus fī maṭāli‘ Hypsicles
the astronomer and mathematician Hypsicles of Alexandria
Arabic
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Ghars al-anshāb fī al-ramy bi-al-nushshāb Planting arrows in archery and crossbow shooting Suyūṭī Suyuti
the prolific Egyptian jurist and historian Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī
Arabic
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The Interpreter of Arabic Literature and Its History
the Egyptian Ministry of Education in the various schools under its jurisdiction
Arabic
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'File 8/2 C Liquor for Qatar and Trucial Coast'
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
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File 14/1 'Piracies & Irregularities at Sea'
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative
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'Biographical Notes'
George Percy Churchill. Many of the notes are accompanied by imprints of the subject's seal and signature
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'File A/11 V Slave cases Trucial Coast'
an agent. file 'File A/11 IV Slave cases Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. '
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'South Arabia, Anglo-Turkish Boundary: Sheet No. 4'
the Anglo-Turkish Boundary Commission under Colonel R A Wahab and Colonel Mustapha Remzi Bey. The map has all place names listed in English and Arabic.
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‘File 28/16 I Defence measures in the Gulf – Bahrain’
the Government of Bahrain
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'File 1/C Volume I. Miscellaneous'.
an agent.
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Kitāb al-shāmil fī al-ramy The Comprehensive Book on Archery Ṭabarī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad Tabari, Abd al-Rahman Ahmad
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī
Arabic
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The Essentials of Arithmetic
the German linguist and ethnographer G.H.F. Nesselmann was published in Berlin in 1843. A French edition
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'File 8/77 III MUSCAT INFANTRY'
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'Memo on the Dashtee tribe'
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